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Assyrian chronology
The Assyrian Empire declined quickly when a simultaneous revolt of Babylon and [[Media]] occurred in 625 B.C. A people who ruled through terror, they had no loyal allies when it looked like they could be overthrown. [[Nineveh]], the capital of Assyria, was taken in 612 B.C. and razed to the ground. Fighting continued through 609 B.C. and for a few years the Assyrian general [[Ashur-uballit]] tried to save a remnant of the Empire with [[Harran]] as its capital, but that last gasp was destroyed in 605 B.C. The Babylonians quickly assumed prominence in the Middle East as the next great Empire as they began their own military campaigns.
The Assyrian Empire declined quickly when a simultaneous revolt of Babylon and [[Media]] occurred in 625 B.C. A people who ruled through terror, they had no loyal allies when it looked like they could be overthrown. [[Nineveh]], the capital of Assyria, was taken in 612 B.C. and razed to the ground. Fighting continued through 609 B.C. and for a few years the Assyrian general [[Ashur-uballit]] tried to save a remnant of the Empire with [[Harran]] as its capital, but that last gasp was destroyed in 605 B.C. The Babylonians quickly assumed prominence in the Middle East as the next great Empire as they began their own military campaigns.
Assyrian chronology is anchored to the solar eclipse mentioned in the eponym of Bar-Sagale, determined by archaoastronomy to be June 15/16, 763 BC.<ref>The eponyms of the Assyrian empire 910-612 BC. by A. R. Millard, Robert M. Whiting. State Archives of Assyria, Vol. 2. Helsinki: Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 1994.</ref>
== Notable Assyrian Rulers ==
== Notable Assyrian Rulers ==